 Now, Global Peace Foundation, GPF, in collaboration with Justice Development and Peace Charities, JDPC, Cardinal Archdiocese, has conducted a one-day roundtable discussion, meeting with the stakeholders in the state to look for a lasting solution to some of the lingering issues of segregation, division among people living in a Bacbalo-Kugomen community in the state. Country coordinator Reverend Joseph Hayab says the meeting is aimed at fostering unity and dispelling fears among Christians and Muslims, as well as sustained peace in Agbakpa community and the state in particular. Hayab stated that the major courses of division and disunity in Nigeria is hunger, poverty, literacy and ignorance, stressing that they need to be addressed. When people live and allow themselves to be instigated by others, division will come. When people live and also have been exploited on political reasons, division will come. But you know the famous or the most serious problem of Nigeria is hunger is helping to expand the division. Poverty is helping to expand the division and literacy is also helping to expand the division because when people are ignorant, ignorant of faith, ignorant of how life supposed to be, someone will just manipulate their ignorance and tell them what is not true about the other person and they start looking at the other person as an enemy. The coordinator of justice development and peace characters JDPC, Reverend Father Joshua Achir, advocated stronger relationship between Christians and Muslims in order to live harmoniously. Peace is key to so many developments, in fact without peace there cannot be development anywhere. And so looking at the local community, you discover that in time past they have lived as brothers and sisters. Things have gone so well that the question of religion or tribe or race, you know, did not even arise. They saw themselves more as a family, as a community and but with time all of these things changed. The Northern Coordinator of Global Peace Foundation, Halliru Malaya says Nigeria is experienced in trying times and residents have to be their brothers' keepers to maintain and promote peace irrespective of their cultural background and religion. The insurgents and the bandits killed people without putting into consideration their identities. They killed the Muslims, they killed the Christians, they abducted the Christians, they equally abducted the Muslims, therefore we have to be more united with a view to show love to ourselves because the bandits, the insurgents, or whatever name you can call them, they live within us. The historic Abba Pak local community used to be relatively peaceful but reverse has been the case in recent time. This informed the need for the meeting.